Vehicle-pole tip



(No Model.)

A. W. BAGG.

VEHICLE POLE TIP.

Patented Sept. 15, 1885.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES ALBERT W. BAGG, OF

PATENT Grater.

DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

VEHICLE-POLE TIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,379, datedSeptember 15, 1885.

Application filed January 27, IBFS.

To all whom, it may concern: Be it known that I, ALBERT W. BAGG, ofDetroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Safety Appliances for Vehicles; and I de clare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whichform a part of this specification.

My invention relates to safety appliances for vehicle tongues, shafts,whiffletrees, 820.; and. it consists of the combinations of devices andappliances, hereinafter specified, and more particularly pointed out inthe claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section illustrating myinvention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Figs. 3 and 4 are modifications.

It is a \veltknown fact that many accidents occur in driving, owing tothe disengagement of the neck-yoke from the vehicle-tongue. This mayresult by having the tugs too long, or by the unfastening of one of thetugs, or by breakage of the harness in various ways.

My invention is designed to overcome these dangers, the device beingalso applicable to shafts of a single vehicle should the loops for thethill-straps be broken. It is applicable to 0 Whiffietrees and for otheruses.

I carry out my invention as follows: A represents a pole, shaft, orwhiffietree, as the case may be.

B represents a metallic tip or strap engaged thereon.

0 represents a pin or shoulder, to prevent the neck yoke from slippingback too far.

D represents the neck-yoke center or ring. E represents a spring-latch,constructed in any suitable manner, engaged in the tip or strap 13, orin the end of the pole itself, should the tip or strap be dispensedwith. As shown in the drawings, this latch is pivotally engaged in theend of the tip, as shown at e, and is -',5 provided with a spring, 6',engaged thereon and having a bearing against the adjacent portion of thetip or wood.

(No model.)

I do not confine myself to the particular construction shown. The latchis constructed with an angular face, to permit the ring of the neck-yoketo be readily inserted over the same, the latch springing into acorresponding recess, B, as the ring passes over it, when the springforces the latch back, to prevent the accidental disengagement of thering, the latch springing back to a sufficient extent to prevent thering being withdrawn without pressing the latch into the recess. Thespring is of sufficient strength to prevent the latch from beingaccidentally forced into said recess.

Figs. 1 and 2 illustrate the normal position of the latch. In Fig. 3 Ihave shown, essentially, the same device attached to the shaft of asingle vehicle forward of the loop, in which the thill-straps areengaged, adapted to preventthe thill-straps from accidentaldisengagement from the shafts. In Fig. 4 the same is shown applied tothe end of a whiffletree.

I would have it understood that I contemplate the use of this safetyappliance for the various applications to which it may be adapted.

Suitable packing, F, may be employed to prevent the latch from rattling.

It is evident that the spring-latch may be pivotally engaged in the partA without the employment of the tip or strap B, if desired, withoutdeparting from the principle of my invention.

\Vhat I claim is A safety appliance for vehicle-shafts, &e.,'

ALBERT If. BAGG.

Witnesses:

N. S. WRIGHT, M. B. ODOGHERTY.

